This week at Citrix Summit, Citrix, HPE and Atlantis are announcing the HPE Edgeline EL4000 Intelligent Edge Workspace, as part of the new Citrix Ready HCI Workspace Appliance program that enables HCI appliances from hardware and storage partners to connect to the Citrix Cloud for automating the setup, management, and maintenance of XenApp/XenDesktop environments for mid-market customers.

As containers continue to be explored and IT is being challenged to cloud enable their applications, organizations are finding new and exciting ways to use them to solve challenges in the enterprise that traditional virtualization architecture has struggled to fulfil. Containers were originally conceptualized under the context of being ephemeral, voiding any requirements for architecting infrastructure for persistence. However, as organizations found ways to apply the benefits of containers to a variety of other workloads and in some cases production, persistence suddenly became a challenge that needed to be solved.

In May, Atlantis announced a strategic alliance with Citrix with the mission to remove the complexities and drive down the cost of virtual workspace deployments. This partnership has enabled Atlantis and Citrix to create new innovative capabilities to simply deliver virtual workspace infrastructure and ensure the best user experience at a lower cost.

There’s been some excitement around this release as we continue to simplify management, make deployment easier, and consume less resources to provide the performance, deduplication, and other data services that USX impressively delivers. Today, we are officially releasing USX 3.5 with features such as:

What a week Atlantis Computing had at Citrix Synergy! To sum up everything, Atlantis took home TWO Best of Synergy awards, was featured in 3 different booths, had 3 major announcements, and was included in the day two keynote. Now let’s break this down and discuss what happened.

User experience faster than a PC under $100/Desktop

This demand is being driven by the pressures of the next generation of users, requiring a solution that allows them to work anywhere on any device in this ever expanding global economy. Unfortunately, these requirements can have an inverse relationship with the IT objectives to keep their intellectual property and data secure and minimize risk. This has been a significant reason why the virtual workspace and VDI has been successful, solving these challenge for millions of users and so many IT organizations.

Accelerate and Consolidate with Atlantis USX

The secret is out that enterprises are collecting more data than ever to provide the analytics organizations need to make critical business decisions. In fact some reports indicate that data collection is now growing so rapidly that it’s doubling in size every two years.